Theodoulou House no.
1

P.O. Box 40965

Sozos-Christos
Theodoulou, M Law, D.E.A., was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, on the 18th
February 1978. He is married to Elena-Cosmina (née Duţan), Ph. D.
Physical Chemistry, and has a son, Christos, born on the 16th
May, 2008.

After finishing school with honours, he spent two years with the
Cypriot National Guard as a second lieutenant in infantry
telecommunications. In 2002, he obtained his maîtrise en droit
(Master in Law) from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. A
year later,he was admitted at the Cyprus Bar and, in the following
summer, he was a UNITAR scholar at the well-known Hague Academy of
International Law. In 2004, he became the first student to obtain
his D.E.A. in International Relations from the prestigious
Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva, in only one
year. He is also holder of the WIPO Academy Certificate in
Intellectual Property and of the London Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (LCCI) Higher Diploma in Public Relations (with credit).

Nowadays, a
practising lawyer by profession, a former advisor of the Permanent
Mission of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations Office at
Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland and a
former assessor judge at the Larnaca Industrial Disputes Court, Mr.
Theodoulou is member and/or regular attendee of the meetings of all
major associations in Intellectual Property Law: INTA, AIPPI, FICPI,
ECTA, MARQUES, PTMG, ITMA, ASIPI, APAA, UNION, ITMA, CIPA, GRUR,
APRAM, et al. He participates in several committees of these
associations and contributes actively in a number of them. The legal
practice of Mr. Theodoulou includes, inter alia, trademark
filing and prosecution, handling of patent cases and advice to
foreign clients, preparation of arbitration decisions on domain name
disputes, anti-counterfeiting action, various other IP matters and
litigation.

Mr. Theodoulou is the
writer of many articles and studies in various scientific magazines
and newspapers. He has, especially, published a notable book in
French, entitled “Bases militaires en droit international: le cas de
Chypre” (Bibliopolis, 2006), the English version of which (“Military
Bases in International Law: the case of Cyprus”) will follow soon.
Moreover, the Cyprus Bar included his legal article “The UN General
Assembly and Treaty-Making: An Overview” in the December 2007
edition of its periodical “Nomiko Vima”. More of his publications
will appear in the near future.

Mr. Theodoulou has
extensive participation in social life. He is the President of the
Cyprus-Swiss Association and the Secretary of the Rotary Club of
Larnaca, he is also a Council member of the United Nations
Association of Cyprus, and of the Larnaca Reserve Officers’ Association.